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Well open competition ENDED competition, so your options are that or frankly NOTHING. No, not maybe kinda something, the other option is absolutely nothing and a quiet free weekend in June
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As they do every year. I don't find that kind of gain that unusual. Especially when three of the sessions are practice and one is competitive.
I think we are all in danger of being too clever by half. We believe we are seeing something, but don't consider other, more usual, factors. Fastest Toyota time from each session, each year. |
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Does anyone know if the grid will form up in lap time order or will the classes be split? I sincerely hope the former.
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Should be less of a lap time jump with Hypercar than LMP1H because you have the same power all the time rather than gaming your your fuel and hybrid boost for single lap runs. Normal pickup for a prototype otherwise is ~2 seconds, although Rebellion jumped 3 last year. I'd give Toyota a bit of extra leeway for the car being new but they also had two extra days to work on setup already.
Rather odd is that the second sector times for Toyota are near identical to last year despite running 110kg heavier, I guess you'd need a finer telemetry breakdown to understand what's really going on in terms of braking/cornering/acceleration in slower corners. |
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It's not impossible that a LMP2 crew could win the prototype drivers title this year. With only 3 full season hypercars and questions around new car reliability, some steady runs near the front could add up.
There are only 6 races and 3 of them offer extra points because they are longer than 6 hours. Scoring well in those will be crucial. |
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Hope nothing artificial is done by series at this stage. The speed gap between Hypercar and LMP2 is perfect now because if Toyota has problems, the margin for error is small. You won't get a situation like Le Mans 2017 where the Porsche 919 was able to win overall still and catch the LMP2 winner on pure speed. Not in 2021. I like that much smaller margin of error this go around.
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Driver changes for Rd 2 at Portimao.
Louis Deletraz to replace Renger van der Zande at Inter Europol. Paul Di Resta to replace Felipe Albuquerque at United. It's a shame Felipe's title defense will be compromised but maybe he can win the IMSA title instead. |
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Maybe it's just me, but I was rather happy with how the "stratification" panned out. P2s were slower by just enough to be out of the picture in the overall battle, but close enough to pounce should a top class car hit serious trouble. I certainly hope it stays this way. We might be just a couple of red cars away from things getting really interesting. |
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The idea that spec LMP2's would be allowed to be first overall was laughable. Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, Porsche, Audi, Acura, us and others at the great race tracks of the world is what's going to happen. GTE will become GT3 at both IMSA and WEC/Le Mans. LMP 2 will be some where in between but way behind the top class. While I'm predicting this year we will be fast. So will Toyota. Alpine has a problem they can't solve. They can't stuff a large enough tank into their already Homologated tub to go as far as Toyota and we will and that will be a real disadvantage for them. Next year if they want to join they will have to build a Hypercar. Last edited by Napolis; 3 May 2021 at 05:16. |
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It’s a bit odd that we haven’t heard more from Alpine about that. Building a hyper car for next year simply isn’t possible - so unless there is some serious arm twisting from them to keep the Rebalpine alive for another year, they’ll have to take a hiatus from the top class.
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renault didn't even give enough budget to alpine/signatech to buy a second spare R13 chassis, it's basically impossible they are going to commit to hypercar...
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At LeMans the HP advantage of the Hypercars will easily keep them ahead of the best LMP2's
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Since seems impossible alpine could get a larger fuel tank, the only way to set the exact number of min. refuels for everyone in LMH is to set max stint lenght as happens during spa 24H where none is allowed to have stint longer than 65 minutes (in green flag condition). Since alpine can't do longer than 47 minutes, the limit should be set to 45min, forcing everyone to refuel 7 times at least (or 6 in case of long cumulative SC periods).
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They could just reduce the maximum energy so Alpine’s tank is adequate.
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